Category: Linux

  • Install Fedora Core 9.0 on a 1GB USB Stick

    I wanted to install the AccessGrid 3.1 collaborative software under FC9.0 earlier on and discovered that the machine didn’t have a CD or DVD. It did however have a newer mobo that allows for USB booting, so I searched around and found Fedora liveusb-creator. What a beauty, the fedora guys make it really simple to…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 3

    Well in Episode 3 of our saga Many goes bald (again) and (almost) drop kicks the server out the window. After going through the pain of installing 10.1 and updating everything I proceeded to upgrade to OpenSuSE 10.3. The upgrade went okay as far as the boot DVD was concerned (no errors during boot), but…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 2

    Okay, don’t laugh, but I’m really starting to believe in the “third time is the charm” saying. Episode 2 was going fine until last night when I left work. I had installed 10.1, skipped installing any of the XEN packages, updated 10.1, installed 10.3 and was in the process of letting it run over night…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 1

    So I’ve been preparing a test server for the past couple of days, so that I can test the Suse upgrade path from 10.1 to 10.3. I’ve got a spare Dell 2650 machine with a PERC3/i card and two 37 GB scsi drives in raid-1 configuration. To get the test going I installed SuSE 10.1…

  • Hardy Heron is out…..

    Heha…..Ubuntu’s newest release 8.04 LTS (aka. Hardy Heron) is out and ready for your consumption. This release is major in that it’s LTS. For those of you who don’t know LTS versions of Ubuntu are supported for 3 years for the desktop version and 5 years for server version. ALL FREE….so what are you waiting…

  • Stream your Linux/Mac/Windows Desktop as video using VLC (Part II)

    A lot of people seem to be having problems (issues) with the original way I had proposed here using command line. So, I figured I make it real simple and do a graphical tutorial with screen shots to boot :-). In this example we first deal with the server (running windows) at IP address 192.168.1.1,…

  • Secure remote backups using Rsync…..

    While the world was busy trying to figure out how to sync their palm pilots to Windows 98 (or was it 95) Andrew Tridgell was working on his thesis……Rsync. The endall-beall in the world of syncing. You see, if you’ve ever tried any syncing program before you’ll appreciate the ease with which rsync works. You’ll…

  • Evernote….Your personal Pet Elephant to help you remember

    And that’s exactly what it does. A fantastic new product from evernote that offers you the opportunity to offload your brain of all those ideas/clippings/musings. Basically this thing is the kitchen sink of organizers….and it does OCR to boot. So head over to evernote.com and sign up for an invite, download whatever method of interface…

  • Cooliris Rocks…..

    Okay these guys are my new best friends….Head over to cooliris.com and grab your copy of their cooliris previews extension…..trust me you’ll not be disappointed…..makes browsing faster and more fun. You’ll wonder how you ever got by without it.

  • Twitter….the cool way….

    To be honest, I’ve had a twitter account for a while, but since I need a browser (or phone) to get access to it and twit, I hadn’t used it. But that’s about to change (maybe), since I found out how you can twit from command line. Yep, twit away from any UNIX, Linux, OSX…